Let me put this up quietly tonight in hopes that everyone is too tired to argue. There was some nervous tweeting among editors today about the that/which rule. You may have been taught it under ...

I will have mixed feelings next week on National Grammar Day, March 4. I confess: I’m one of those people who cares about the difference between a gerund and a participle, between a restrictive and ...

1. Relative clauses are “embedded” grammatical structures, contained inside other grammatical structures. 2. Relative clauses play a central role in English discourse. 3. Relative clause knowledge is ...

For each pair of sentences below, think about ways of combining the two sentences into one new sentence containing a “restrictive relative clause.” Recall that a restrictive relative clause, which is ...

This study investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of restrictive relative clauses (RRCs) in Chinese by two groups of learners speaking typologically different first languages (Lis): English ...